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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #3
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #4
    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    Barack Obama

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #6
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #7
    Steven Wright
    “I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
    Steven Wright

  • #8
    William Blake
    “I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
    William Blake, Songs of Experience

  • #9
    Jasper Fforde
    “Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”
    Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #13
    “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
    Pat Monahan

  • #14
    “There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”
    Dan Greenberg
    tags: cats

  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #16
    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    Confucious

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
    "Why, what did she tell you?"
    "I don't know, I didn't listen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “Be content with what you have;
    rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Aristotle
    “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
    Aristotle

  • #21
    Margaret Atwood
    “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
    Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

  • #22
    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #23
    Steven Wright
    “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
    Steven Wright

  • #24
    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #26
    Jim  Butcher
    “Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”
    Jim Butcher, Storm Front

  • #27
    Dave Barry
    “What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.”
    Dave Barry

  • #28
    Emmett F. Fields
    “Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
    Emmett F. Fields

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
    May the stars shine upon your faces!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan



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